Continuing a crossover revolution, MONSTA X made history once again earlier this month with the release of their 3rd English language album, 'Unfold.' The first K-pop group to release 3 LPs in English finds themselves continuing to level up their game with growth and healing on the new project, and they stopped by our Los Angeles studios for an Audacy Check In with Bru to talk all about it.

While sitting with Bru, the members of MONSTA X reflected on the changes and progress experienced in the five years since their last full English album, emphasizing the value of patience and consistency. They described 'Unfold' as having more "emotions” and more “skills" than their previous outings, and they continue to upgrade their sound and overall experience.

'Unfold' also sees MONSTA X experimenting with new sounds, like the bombastic gospel soaring of the focus track, “heal,” and doubling down on dance-floor flooding melodies on songs like “baby blue,” or sincere and serene ballads like “before you met me.”

There is still a lot these trailblazers want to do sharing the goals of performing an all-English setlist during their US tour, achieving a stadium tour in America, and winning a GRAMMY, but through it all there’s one constant, “everything” is for the fans.

For more from MONSTA X, check out the full conversation above.

Meghan Trainor is dancing her way through the pain, as the GRAMMY-winning singer has returned with the new album, 'Toy With Me,' bright and beautiful but fueled by some real tough emotions behind-the-scenes.

Trainor recently stopped by for an Audacy Check In with Bru, and told us that a combo of kids, learning about herself, and a barrage of online criticism served as the backdrop to her latest effort, writing 'Toy With Me' as a form of “therapy.”

“I'm overwhelmed and frustrated and angry and learning about my body still, like ADHD, I just got diagnosed with,” Meghan reveals. “All my 3 kids are at that young age where they're going to school and they're picking up germs, so all in one week there's been a lot of diarrhea and pink eye, and infections and, so I'm very overwhelmed, and angry.”

“I was very angry and sassy, like ‘Get In Girl,’ was written about a real breakup that happened in my family, and so I was so heartbroken. A lot of my online content I just got so much hate for the first time ever, like back right back on my body. Everyone just wants to talk about my body and it was heartbreaking, but I got to write all these bangers out of it and so I'm using this album as my therapy to get me out of this little dark overwhelmed cloud that I'm in. So I can go dance and party and celebrate and escape this crazy world for a minute.”

After running through some of her music video moments from 'Toy With Me,' the talk turned to Meghan’s personal life, which includes a recent renewal of vows with her husband, and having 3 children. For Meghan her experience in being a Pop star has laser focused some of the feelings all parents have, especially with her daughter. “A majority of my job is being commented on, on my body and it's never about like my talent or my songs anymore. It's all like what she looks like her with bangs, her outfits, her choices, and I wanted to write on this album like, ‘buckle up daughter like this world it's gonna be a little bit rough for us,' but I didn't end up doing that. I just wrote these big anthems that are like, ‘I don't care about what people think. It's OK.’"

“I went in that direction instead of just being sad,” she adds. “It changes a lot, it's just like highlighted. I think everyone feels these things with social media, but mine has like 18 million people looking.”

For much more from Meghan Trainor, check out the full Audacy Check In above. Toy With Me is now available everywhere.

Fresh from the debut of her new single, “drop dead,” and an appearance on the Coachella stage, Olivia Rodrigo made her way to our Los Angeles studios for an Audacy Check In conversation with Bru.

Rodrigo's third studio album, 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,' is set to arrive on June 12, packed with freedom, fun, and a personal challenge to herself as a songwriter.

"I just love writing songs so much and I hope that my love for writing and music comes through in these songs,” she says. “I just had a blast and I felt really free and happy and I hope that that's, you know, palpable on the record."

“So many of the songs are about joy, which is really fun to write about for the first time,” Olivia adds. “There's obviously a lot of sadness and longing and whatever I injected into it, but, yeah, I feel really free and I feel like more myself than ever and, I'm just really, really excited for people to hear the whole album.”

Being in what she calls her first “big girl relationship,” Rodrigo took up the challenge of writing something meaningful. “Writing a song about happiness is a lot harder than writing a song about heartbreak, I think.”

“It was sort of challenging myself to make a love song and also sort of talk about some of the more negative feelings that go along with being in romantic relationships, like, longing and yearning and jealousy and missing your partner while they're away, and that was kind of the the challenge for me is to try to marry those two worlds.”

It all fits within the title, which Rodrigo says came from talk with her producer, Dan Nigro. "I was having a conversation with my producer Dan about something and he was like, ‘oh, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,’ just in conversation. I was like ‘that's it. That's gonna be the album title.’ I'm really happy with it. It really captures, I think, the entire thesis statement of what I was trying to do."

The next chapter for Olivia began earlier this month with “drop dead,” and a visual of her running through the Palace of Versailles. “It's so stunning and we were lucky enough to be able to film there basically alone for like a night, which was so rad,” she reveals. “I felt like I was in ‘Night at the Museum.’ I felt like the statues were gonna like come alive and start jousting or something."

"It was so special and, I think that that song, ‘drop dead,’ is sort of about like falling for someone and dreaming so big and having all these high hopes, and so I think the Palace of Versailles is such a great backdrop for it because there's so much opulence and so much like glitz and glamour and when you're like falling in love with someone for the first time I think that that's sort of what it feels like, or that's what you're hoping for, and so I'm really happy with it.”

For more from Olivia Rodrigo, check out the full conversation above. 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' is out everywhere on June 12.